i'm jeremy hubbard for on ice. i'm jeremy hubbard for "nightline" in washington. me ev well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with these: unpublished rates. which means i get an even more rockin' hotel, for less. . >>> every night at craigie on main, his local restaurant in massachusetts, chef tony maws demonstrates that animals can be delicious from nose to tail. he was declared the best chef in the northeast this year. he shows us how it's done in tonight's "plate list." >> i'm a boston boy. he grew up here, absolutely. i'm a red sox fan. i grew up in a family that loved great food, you know, whether friday was pizza night. we were about, where's the best pizza? or sunday night was chinese food night, we had our favorite spot. so, you know, some how it just all clicked. so, what we have here is actually a mix of two different flours. the rye and the double zero. so you can see it going around right now. and we're adding the carroway. just yolks for richness.

king hubbard was right, wasn't he? the united states did reach its maximum oil production 10 years ago. wow. what that means, of course, is that won't the world sometime reach its oil production maximum? how could you argue the united states is not a microcome of the world? if the united states reached its maximum oil production in 1970, when would the world reach its maximum oil production? m. king hubbard predicted the world would reach its maximum oil production about now. if m. king hubbard's speech was the most important speech of the last century, one might ask, twheafs most insightful speech of the last century? i don't know if these two men even knew each other, i don't know if hyman rickover, who i think gave the most invitheful speech in the last century, i don't know if he knew m. king hubbard existed. he was going to talk about the same phenomenon from a different perspective. his speech was given the 15th day of maye, just a little over a year later in 1957. the audience was irrelevant but the audience was

i'm glenn hubbard. >> tom: just a reminder, you find us online at n.b.r. on pbs.org. there you can comment on our blog or watch any programs that you may have missed. or you can follow us on twitter, @bizrpt, or my personal feed, @hudsonnbr. if tweeting isn't your thing, friend us on facebook at bizrpt. >> susie: and finally, last month's royal wedding led to a within with the tsunami left nearly 30,000 people dead or missing. the casualties were overwhelmingly among the elderly, not just because they were more physically vulnerable. the crisis highlights the hazards of an aging population. and as japan grapples with the enormous cost of recovery, the country already has a head start in one area, an innovative job program for working seniors. lucy kraft reports. >> reporter: this is the face of retirement, japanese style. under a pioneering government program, nearly one million able-bodied he woulde-- elderly citizens are urged to keep punching the clock as long as they can. so brigades of seniors spruce up public parks, sweep down sand boxes, and pack origami paper.

and here's jeremy hubbard. >> reporter: we americans love our coffee.drink an average of three cups a day. now, it seems, our love affair has some health benefits. harvard researchers with backing from the national cancer institute discovered men who down six or more cups daily had a stunning 60% lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer. even drinking just one two three cups dropped the risk by 30%. >> if men enjoy drinking coffee, going to encourage them. there appear to be many positive health affects of drinking coffee. >> reporter: and regular or decaf, doesn't matter. the benefits prove to be the same. turns out caffeine isn't the magic ingredient. so, what is? surprisingly, like broccoli and blueberries, and all those other well-known cancer fighting foods, coffee contains hundreds of potent antioxidants, among them, a little known, hard to pronounce compound called methylpyridimium. it's virtually nonexistent in any other food or drinks. scientists already knew coffee is known to reduce inflammation. then, just a week ago, a swedish study

most academic economists aren't wealthy business people. >> hubbard makes $250,000 a year as a board member of met life and was formerly on the board of capmark, a major commercial mortgage lender which went bankrupt during the bubble, in 2009. >> reporter: hubbard declined to speak to us on camera. but he points out that his clients are a matter of public record. he says that his ties to the financial industry are right there on his website and in fact that's where you got them. >> some of them are disclosed on his website. they are not however usually disclosed in his publications or his public statements. and his website does not disclose the very large quantity of additional consulting that he does for financial services firms and industry associations. who are your consulting clients? >> i don't believe i have to discuss that with you. in fact, you have a few more minutes and the interview is over. >> reporter: i know people who think you were unfair to laura tyson and ruth simmons for apparently just not having given you an interview. >> there were dozens of other people who tu

jeremy hubbard, abc news. >>> take a look at your monday forecast. stormy across the upper midwest.ge hail could hit the twin cities. chicago, milwaukee and des moines. heavy mountain snow in the northern rockies and showers in the pacific northwest. light snow from the cascades to lake tahoe. >> near 60 in seattle. portland and boise. 67 in fargo. 72 in chicago. 77 in indianapolis. 70s here in new york, baltimore and 80s from atlanta to new orleans. >>> this is a good way to celebrate another birthday. taking a page from the elder president bush. the california man marked his 85th birthday with a sky jump. >> yes, 85th birthday, jump out of a plane. he said that he's survived stints in world war ii and the korean war so why not jump out of a plane? >> unbelievable. i would die of fear in the plane before i had a chance to jump. joining him on the ride was his daughter, his pastor and his 92-year-old friend. they all landed safely as fellow church members watched and prayed for an easy and safe jump. >> yes, so he wasn't even the oldest. >> no. >> sky jumper in the whole ordeal. >>

the huge earth hubbard. led mission and. the trinité should treat in store charges free arrangements free risk free. free. the old free blanquita cullum video for your media project a free media oh don carty dr tom. la. sublime. it's. everywhere you the concert in the museum now there is one. rivers creeks swamps the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. and because of this abundance today everyone. has a. louisiana is. in some ways a dream place. if you have a little bug or whatever within ten minutes you can be away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok have some fish for supper he can watch the birds to your heart and say that's the beauty you know you can own a little place like this where i can have my own little swamp on the wall along it's a really is a magic place to live. in the space of about five to seven thousand years all of coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sediment which slowly but surely built out to the sea creating a very biologically diverse e

jeremy hubbard explains how. >> reporter: what if the sabertooth tiger roamed the earth one more like10,000 bc.? is it far-fetched? japanese scientists say the beast could be cloned in four years. >> quite impossible now. just within the bounds of foreseeable possibility. >> reporter: certainly sounds like the stuff of jurassic park. but it was a real scientific breakthrough said to have inspired michael crichton's best-selling tale. in 1984 this special kind of zebra became the first animal from which scientists received ancient dna. the last remaining quaha, south african zebra missing half its stripes died in captivity in 1883. >> it went extinct because settlers that arrived in capetown, going out into the wilderness found it very easy to shoot. it was inquisitive. had no fear of the animal as arriving in its land. >> reporter: the geneticist has been working for 25 years on a project to restore the quaha back to life bringing it back from its most common ancestor. >> it started when a local taxidermist thought it might be feasible to rebreed the quaha using living plain zebra ani

tonight, jeremy hubbard goes on a candle-lit fitness quit, and believe it or not, it's a "sign of the> reporter: you've made it inside one of the most exclusive hot spots in new york city. there's a waiting list to get in. a-listers vying for the best seats in the house. they just happen to be bicycle seats. thousands of people a week are now fighting to get into this extreme spin class here at soul cycle. they've somehow turned cardio into a cult. riding into a religion. >> people cry all the time. i can't tell you how many e-mails and phone calls we get, you know, i left my therapist, i don't need to go there anymore. >> reporter: julie and elizabeth first started soul cycle with the idea of turning that plain old spin class into an experience. turn down the lights, fire up the candles, fill the room with calm. make it more spiritual than physical. then, somehow, while you're lost in that zen moment, the instructors torture you with a blubber-busting workout that burns up to 700 calories in just 45 minutes. extreme spinning is suddenly extremely popular, especially with celebrities.

happy birthday to camir hubbard celebrating his 6th birthday and he has a handsome smile. if you have an interesting photo or picture of the day you want to passe long, send it to morning show at wmar.com and give us the important facts behind the picture so we can share it with everybody else. it's 6:21. we will be right back. >>> time for entertainment news. zsa zsa gabor back in the hospital. the 94-year-old actress was taken this last night to be treated for pneumonia. she has suffered major health problems in the last year including a hip replacement, surgery as well as leg amputation. she has been unable to walk since the 2002 car accident. >>> one little rascals passed away. seen here in a 1937 film boys of the streets, jackie cooper died yesterday after a sudden illness. he was perhaps better known for his role as perry white in the superman movies starring christopher reeves. cooper was 88 years old. >>> and mariah carey and her husband nick cannon have unveiled the names of their twins that were born on saturday. the babies named morroccan scott cab ob and monroe

jeremy hubbard. >> jeremy hubbard has the story. >> reporter: chalk this one up to the etiquette police, taken off this amtrak train, and charged with disorderly conduct after passengers said she talked loudly on her phone, nearly nonstop, on the trip from oregon to salem. and they reminded her loud calls are banned in the quiet train cars. looks like when it comes to mobile phone manners, maybe we've finally had enough. on youtube, teachers are taking out their rage on cell phone use. and last year, singer adam lambert even stopped a concert mid song. >> wait. sorry. sorry. can you get off your phone? you're yelling into it. we're going to start over. >> reporter: at pleaseshutup.com, they started a viral campaign. starring annoying cell phone guy. armed with an oversized phone. and on oversized ability to annoy. in the elevator. >> no. i'm in an elevator. >> reporter: at study time? >> hello? >> reporter: even on one of those quiet trains. >> i got a lot of people shouting. i can't hear very well. >> reporter: calls like these are why one group has established july as national cell ph

well less than fifteen minutes from now march skies and stacey hubbard have their own ideas about why the dollar is king in diving. but always let me find something about the dollar enjoying a bit of a bounce recently tied exactly to the moment when bin ladin spectacle a stance of bloody pakistan and violence films little love and you american state sanctioned terrorist blood guts pentagon armed military conflict the military industrial complex i.e. you do are you do it's a huge platter of press that we've seen which is the basis for the rally in the dollar there's no jobs or there's no manufacturing or the only thing backing the dollar this for against extension terrorist acts that's what those old. now there are signs that see further reactors that japan's trouble for. may have gone into meltdown similar problems were earlier confronted number one reactor. suspected of failing to properly cool them all to the radiation risk profile. says meltdown indications that there long before it was a message. a meltdown means that the fuel inside the reactor has got so hot that it's melted and

billable for public review fifty one children total that entire year died from fire and maxton so how hubbard managed create several thousand sounds like pretty much your typical gun control. in that case you're right let me restate this here's here's the exact job to have in that period six thousand eight hundred seventeen children between five and fourteen died from firearms thirty four hundred forty seven from homicide seven hundred eighty two from accidental shootings and fifty nine hundred eighty eight for suicide so a seventeen hundred it wasn't five thousand thank you for correcting me but the point is still seventeen thousand dead children and many of those dead children would be dead if a doctor had simply said you have a gun in the house and the kid said yes the doctor had said they had a mom do you realize that your kid knows that you've got a gun. that's strange conclusion to come to because when you look at the total number of children and we're talking about fifty one a year or just zero point zero zero zero two percent of the children in this country the number of interventions

jeremy hubbard has the story. >> reporter: it's a huge craze in australia and europe. only by its risks. it's called planking. it involves laying flat on your face in different, often dangerous situations, while someone snaps a photo. type "planking" into youtube, and there are dozens of daring planks. like this one on a moving car and this one of a man on a motorized bikes. facebook is buzzing with fan pages boasting tens of thousands of members. this page has over 100,000 likes. it inspired numerous other pages, planking australia, pl k planking usa, with unique ones with this baby one and this one on a cop war, landing the planker in handcuffs. even sports figures are joining in. watch as a rugby player strikes a pose after scoring. plafrpging turned deadly for one australian man after he fell to his death as he tried to plank on a balcony rail this is the first known death from planking. ing seven stories high. with its rising appeal, police are worried it will happen more. will it catch on big here in the united states? >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter: some

they had it fully loaded when they came to hover they couldn't hold the hubbards. >> the quit thinkinges to lift his stricken craft landing hard along side the compound wall. eminent disaster averted. with the helicopter room plan b is implemented. >> we plan for these things ahead of time. there would be a bump plan and contingency for what to do with the vehicle whether it be destroyed or leave it behind. i am sure it was a calculated decision and they moved on. >> undaunted they leap from their wrecked chopper nine have been hurt by the landing. the seals are forced to knock down the compound door. valuable seconds are extended and the guard alerted. it is not the intennis firefight initially responded. who respond all three are are dead including his son khalid. even after it was overwhelmed have already entered the main building housing the family which lived comfortably on the second and third floor. this compound 8 times larger than any other home in the area. it is from here the terror mastermind directed al qaeda prepared for tauntzing videos by dying his beards and watched hi

jeremy hubbard is at a gas station in new york with more. good morning, jeremy. >> reporter: the highest gas prices of 2011 may have already come and gone. we'll likely start seeing the pennies peel off by monday. and optimistic analysts say they could drop 25 to 40 cents in the coming weeks, just in time for memorial day. this week started with the highest oil prices in two years. and ending in a freefall. oil down $17 in just five days. slowly and surely, we're seeing it at a pump. gas down a penny, early nationwide from yesterday. down a quarter in this florida panhandle town, where a price war is being wage. >> illinois, the upper great lakes, we'll see the largest drop in prices. the smallest drop will likely come in the midwest and the rockies, where gas prices are already low. >> reporter: if gas prices drop 25 cents to 40 cents by memorial day, americans who have been spending $390 a month to fill up the tank, will now be spending about $340. economists say it would free up $100 million to $130 million a day, for americans to spend o

jeremy hubbard is here with the latest details.rning, jeremy. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. she lived on nothing but water and trail mix. this morning she's in the hospital 20 to 30 pounds lighter but walking around and seemingly in good health as the search goes on for her still missing husband. the family of albert and rita chretien was stunned when they got the call friday. rita was still alive. >> absolutely incredible. it came as a total surprise. we believe it's a miracle. >> reporter: march 19th is when they were last heard from setting out on a 1,200-mile road trip from their home in british columbia headed for a trade show in las vegas. that afternoon they buy gas at this convenience store in oregon. this surveillance video is the last anyone would see of them. back on the road they make their way to nevada opting for a scenic route, but they get stranded on a desolate logging road. >> for two days they were getting stuck and unstuck in their vehicle over and over again until eventually the husband said, i'm going to

that senior citizens recognize that something has to be done because again, 13 years, poor mother hubbard'sre. we have to make the system work. it would be foolish for democrats to run terrible ads to scare people because that doesn't work either. it isn't just a republican solution. it has to be bipartisan, both parties coming together, because this is bigger than us. this is our senior citizen population that's growing and we can't lose them. >> interesting time in foreign policy. you said the united states in your view shouldn't be in libya. there is no national security interest. >> that's what secretary of defense gates said. >> but you voted against proposal that would have put time line on deployment in afghanistan. and a growing number of democrats and republicans seem to be tired, seem to be thinking it is time to get out of afghanistan, maybe more so with the death of bin laden. >> i agree. and here is the difference. at this point, i don't think it is fair for congress members to usurp our decision making over that of the generals on the ground. it is very important that the gene

jeremy hubbard has the full story. >> reporter: we americans love our coffee.ms our love affair has some health benefits. harvard researchers backed from the national cancer institute discovered men who downed six or more cups of coffee daily had a stunning 60% lower risk of developing lethal prostate cancer. even drinking just one to three cups dropped the risk by 30%. >> if men enjoy drinking coffee i will encourage them. i think -- there appear to be many positive health effects of drinking coffee. >> reporter: regular or decaf? it turns out the improvements are same. caffeine is not the secret ingredient. so what is, surprisingly like broccoli, blueberries and all those other well-known cancer-fighting foods, contains hundreds of potent antioxidants. among them, a little-known, hard to pronounce compound called methylpyridinium, it is virtually nonexistent in other foods or drinks. it supercharges enzymes in your body that may stop colon cancer from developing. scientists already knew that coffee could reduce inflammation and regulate insulin in the body. t

here's jeremy hubbard. >> reporter: it a huge craze in australia and in europe.g. and it involves laying flat on your face indifferent, often dangerous situations while someone snaps a photo. type planking into youtube there are dozens of examples of daring planks, like this one on a moving car and this one on a man on a motorized bike and facebook is buzzing. with fan pages boasting tens of thousands of members. this page has more than 1,000 likes and has inspired numerous other pages. planking australia and planking uk and planking usa. like this cute baby plank or this one on a cop car landing the planker in handcuffs. even sports figures are joining in, watch as a rugby player strikes a pose after scoring but planking turned deadly for one 21-year-old after he turned to his death on sunday morning after he tried plank. this is the first known death as a result of planking. but with its rising appeal police are worried more serious injuries will follow. the question is will this phenomenon catch on big here in the states? >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter

and our jeremy hubbard has been looking into this. good morning, jeremy. >> reporter: that's right, robin. everything from furniture to flip-flops are on the rise. we find out that this is just part of what's hurting our wallet. of course, you've been feeling pain at the pump. but now, price creep has arrived, doing serious damage to the cost of everyday items. that morning cup of joe, coffee beans up 27% since december. want to relax in that recliner? furniture at ethan allen and lazy boy up 7%. planning to take the kids to the beach? two pairs of flip-flops that once cost $5 cost $1 more. and while flip-flops aren't a necessity. manufacturers know that parents need diapers and wipes. parents can expect to pay up to 7% more in the coming months. severe weather has damaged crops. even last week's tornadoes wiped out one-fourth of alabama's poultry production. all of it has degree united a perfect storm, leaving manufactures with a dilemma. raise prices or reduce portions. and reducing portions is what they're doing. >> you drink bottl

we are 100 university and the servants, one hubbard university and class of 2011.this is your time to name and claim your leadership role in the 21st century america. committed to excellence, the quality and high expectations. but also, stand today on the great shoulders of the former graduates of harvard university. you stand on the shoulders of kenneth clark and john jacobs and vernon jordan. [applause] you stand on the shoulders of cathy hughes and edward brooks. you stand on the shoulders of judge robert carter, meir david and shirley franklin. you stand on the shoulders of the attorney general pamela harris and douglas wilder. you stand on the shoulders of the ambassador andrew young, general benjamin davis, laurie, toni morrison, and yes, michele miller. you stand on the shoulders of all of the mothers and fathers and grandmothers who are here today who have gone before us and who struggle and sweat and who bled and year-end, who sacrificed and borrowed and scolded and nurtured, who tolerated each and every one of you. you stand on all of their shoulders toda

we have to do of the decision-making in nato to help those friends of israel, like the czech ray hubbard, the u.k. government, france to posit a message to the rest of the allies, that something is brewing up in the country, like, for instance, spain was taking the half of the new flotilla organization. well, you get a telegram from your allies that this is the wrong thing to do, you create an environment that's less conducive for that information to act freely. the thing we are trying to obtain. >> very good. thank you. we've received a good many questions almost naturally about a concern about what does the panel make of the fact that there were so many jews who appeared to be in the forefront of the delegitimatization movement? and lorna, as a non-jewish friend, i'd like to have your perception? >> i think you're all too bothered about it. you're more upset -- i mean, i do a lot of work outside of my sort of day job inside the british jewish community. and the most angst ridden conversations why are the jews part of organizations and the title is not that bad but the views of the orga